A huge and impressive old glasshouse in the south of France. Often called La Serre du Chirurgien (“The Surgeon’s Greenhouse”). Honestly, I am not sure exactly why 😅
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📺 Exclusive #Patreon video! 5-minute highlights of my summer road trip across Ireland. My longest ever video!
• Art Deco school
• Shut post office
• Workhouse ruins
• Hospital with dark past
• Cute cottages & houses
• Grand mansion with library
• Church ruins
• A closed garage with Fiat cars
• Cinema colonised by ferns
• Fire engines
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The Trump administration is no longer offering due process protections to the most vulnerable immigrant children
-- as it tries to increase the number of deportations,
according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of six children,
five of whom reside in Allegheny County.
“This case is about the most vulnerable in our immigration system:
abused, abandoned, neglected, and trafficked children,”
the opening lines of the lawsuit read.
“One would assume it would be a priority of our immigration system to protect, at least, these children.”
The 159-page complaint, filed against the Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary Markwayne Mullin in federal civil court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
argues that new procedures and rules implemented by immigration judges in the past year have effectively undermined a 1990 law
that was supposed to provide special protections to these children.
Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh (JFCS),
which filed the lawsuit Wednesday,
said that some of the children who have been ordered removed have already been identified as having been sexually trafficked or abused and abandoned by their parents.
Others are being deported while the children are in the middle of making their case
– or even before they have had a real opportunity to be heard.
“Despite the risks, whatever they may be, we need to stand up at this time.” said Dana Gold, chief operations officer for JFCS
“The United States has long recognized a compelling interest in protecting children from harm and trafficking,
an interest Congress has codified and reaffirmed for more than three decades,”
the complaint reads.
“Immigration authorities, and immigration courts,
throughout the United States are now refusing to afford children the due process to seek that protection.”
One of the children described in the lawsuit is a 17-year-old from Guatemala
who was issued a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services, stating
“We have determined that you were subjected to a severe form of trafficking in persons.”
But she was still ordered removed by an immigration court in Philadelphia on July 16.
The removal of a girl who has been trafficked,
the lawsuit argues,
contradicts the stated goals of Secretary Mullin,
who is quoted as saying he would “move heaven and hell to go find these kids.”
“It is a hypocritical position to espouse,”
the complaint says,
“while simultaneously looking for credit in locating missing or trafficked children.
They are right here”
and the Trump administration is
“seeking to return them to harm, without any due process.”
Another one of the children whose removal status is being challenged by the lawsuit is a 15-year-old from El Salvador who lives in Allegheny County.
The girl has already gone through the process of proving that it would not be in her interest to be reunited
“due to abuse, abandonment or neglect.”
JFCS has provided legal help to nearly 3,000 unaccompanied minors in the last five years,
including representation in immigration court for 983,
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The Trump administration’s new guidelines and rules are making it nearly impossible for the small nonprofit to continue its work,
according to Dana Gold, the chief operations officer for JFCS.
The lawsuit is the only one in the country of its kind that Gold is aware of.
“Nobody else across the country is doing this.
They’re waiting for us,” she said.
“And so we have a grave responsibility for these children.”
#JewishFamilyAndCommunityServicesOfPittsburgh #JFCS
📺 Exclusive #Patreon video! 5-minute highlights of my summer road trip across Ireland. My longest ever video!
• Art Deco school
• Shut post office
• Workhouse ruins
• Hospital with dark past
• Cute cottages & houses
• Grand mansion with library
• Church ruins
• A closed garage with Fiat cars
• Cinema colonised by ferns
• Fire engines
Watch the free preview here:
https://www.patreon.com/obsidianurbex/posts/exclusive-video-165454274
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🌄 Sunset at an abandoned chateau, the colours of the sky were spectacular! Somewhere in France.
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🆕🏭🇧🇪 A gigantic abandoned ironworks, once these rusting ruins stood on the south bank of the Meuse River in Liège, Belgium. Enormous steel frames, pipe networks, and industrial conveyors surround a 60m-tall blast furnace.
The facility operated as a production hub for liquid pig iron until its closure in 2011. Now, almost all of it has been demolished as the site fades into history.
Full feature live Sunday 8 pm (UK)
#Abandoned #Belgium #History #Photography #Industry #Urbex #UrbanExploration
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An abandoned palace hidden in plain sight on a busy street. Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹🏰
#Portugal #Architecture #History #Photography #Abandoned #Urbex #UrbanExploration
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🎶A decaying ballroom in Germany. Closed since the 1990s, it has been many years since the last dance. If you listen closely, maybe you can hear the last song echoing. What do you think the final song played was?
#Photography #Germany #History #EastGermany #Abandoned #Ballroom #Music
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Ferme 1881, Belgium. One of the first abandoned houses I explored on my very first road trip on the other side of The Channel. Many years ago, but I still remember walking through the door like it was yesterday 🥰
#Photography #UrbanExploration #Timecapsule #Abandoned #LostPlaces #Explore
An open magazine sits on the table, with a vintage geology hammer ontop
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An antique wooden spinning wheel stands beside an ornate carved cabinet in a room with fallen leaves covering the floor.
An atmospheric photo shows an abandoned brick room filled with antique wooden furniture and dried foliage. A spinning wheel sits left of an ornate cabinet and armoire
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🆕🏭🇧🇪 A gigantic abandoned ironworks, once these rusting ruins stood on the south bank of the Meuse River in Liège, Belgium. Enormous steel frames, pipe networks, and industrial conveyors surround a 60m-tall blast furnace.
The facility operated as a production hub for liquid pig iron until its closure in 2011. Now, almost all of it has been demolished as the site fades into history.
Full feature live Sunday 8 pm (UK)
#Abandoned #Belgium #History #Photography #Industry #Urbex #UrbanExploration
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☢️ Who else is excited for #Fallout5? I sure as heck am!
I’ve spent years seeking out real-life abandoned places all around the world. Many look like scenes from the Fallout universe!
Rusted machinery frozen in place, car graveyards, vacant buildings, deserted theme parks.
#Fallout #PostApocalyptic #Photography #Abandoned #VideoGames #PostApocalypse
An abandoned control room at Agecroft Primary Substation, England, with decaying machinery, rusty gauges, and peeling paint.
A massive, rusted bucket-wheel excavator stands derelict in a green field under a cloudy sky. The giant machine shows advanced decay.
An overgrown, abandoned amusement park in Japan featuring a rusty Ferris wheel and a decaying carousel under a blue sky.
A rusted 1950s Cadillac Coupe de Ville is heavily overgrown by lush green foliage in an abandoned junkyard
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🫶🎞️ Kodak moment! Abandoned places captured on colourful Ultramax, using a 1970s 35mm camera.
Developed and scanned at home by myself, in my super-professional dark room and film lab (a.k.a. my bathroom at night and my kitchen sink!) 🧪👩🔬
Link to full photo roll my review of this film - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/blog/kodak-ultramax-400-35mm-review-photos/
#FilmPhotography #35mm #Urbex #Explore #Kodak #Photo #Film #Abandoned #Blog #Review
A vivid street art mural on a weathered building depicts a vintage car amidst abstract colors.
A decaying cream-colored building with a prominent clock tower, its paint peeling under a bright blue sky.
Two old fire engines in a barn, surrounded by old farm machines
A severely dilapidated room is overtaken by green and yellow mold on its walls and ceiling. A red sign in the center reads "WORKSHOP RECEPTION" with an arrow pointing right, while ferns grow from the floor.
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Inside an abandoned prison, this panopticon allowed guards to monitor all four wings that radiate out from this central hub. Somewhere in Portugal 🇵🇹
#Portugal #Prison #History #Photography #LostPlace #Abandoned #Yellow
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🌿🏫 Welcome to the Fern School! Reclaimed by nature, for a time. Now demolished. Clune Park School, Glasgow.
#Glasgow #Abandoned #Photography #History #Urbex #LostPlaces #Ferns
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🩷💙Pink and Blue! Two abandoned houses with Victorian/Gothic Revival vibes, both in northern Portugal. Which is your favourite?
#Portugal #Abandoned #Gothic #Photography #Pink #Blue #Victorian
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🎥 New video on my #PeerTube channel!
Forgotten dusty 1950s Austin car. Surprise barnfind near an abandoned house, Ireland 🇮🇪
Join me on as I explore this spot ➡️ https://lostpod.space/w/67maUPJaxm8duTngVyUDgv
#Ireland #Video #UrbanExploration #Urbex #ClassicCar #Barnfind #Abandoned
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💙🏭Inside of a cooling tower, somewhere in Poland
#Poland #Urbex #Photography #Industry #Abandoned #Industrial #Photo
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